While still preparing my next post on Murder in Havana (with pix, recipes etc) I found this post linked to on Culture Connect's website. Not only for this post, the blog is worth a visit!
Raspberry Kitsch - a North East Fashion & Lifestyle blog: Mojitos and murder mysteries at the Crisis Skyligh...: After an extremely busy week with the Shift event and despite the long weekend, and all my hopes of (finally) getting on top of my bloggin...
Friday, 19 April 2013
Monday, 1 April 2013
Cooking in Cuban 3.0
I've been calling myself -every now and then- a "situationist artist" for well over 25 years. Most of my "art" is performed, without any sticker, woven in the warp and weft of ordinary life... and I NEVER save a visual souvenir, a permanence... The most I do -and not always- is to write a little note about the performance.
There are, however, some recurrent sets of works. "Cooking in Cuban" is one of them.
CiC is very simple, and happens all the time: I can't cook in any other way but in Cuban... in spite of being a post-nationalist rootless cosmopolitan. Some times, purposely, I organise a meal and have friends over -or I cook at their place- and while preparing a "Cuban meal" I tell stories. Those stories might be related to the actual meal, my personal life, friends' etc. Some times I select the soundtrack; in other occasions, music is a random event.
As a parallel act -"unrelated" to my performances- I was invited by a local NGO to cook a Cuban meal in one of their fundraising events. As soon as I get their pictures -and their website is updated- I'll be telling more about them and their "Murder in Havana" event. In the meantime, here's the poster:
There are, however, some recurrent sets of works. "Cooking in Cuban" is one of them.
CiC is very simple, and happens all the time: I can't cook in any other way but in Cuban... in spite of being a post-nationalist rootless cosmopolitan. Some times, purposely, I organise a meal and have friends over -or I cook at their place- and while preparing a "Cuban meal" I tell stories. Those stories might be related to the actual meal, my personal life, friends' etc. Some times I select the soundtrack; in other occasions, music is a random event.
As a parallel act -"unrelated" to my performances- I was invited by a local NGO to cook a Cuban meal in one of their fundraising events. As soon as I get their pictures -and their website is updated- I'll be telling more about them and their "Murder in Havana" event. In the meantime, here's the poster:
Sunday, 24 March 2013
All previous post are gone. Time to start anew, guided by two songs: one, IMHO the quintessence of "cubanidad", by Emiliano Salvador and Pablito Milanes; the other, by Adrian Morales, a polifacetic artist who expresses the angst and dreams of my generation, the generation who came of age in that mid 1980s Havana...
I hope you'll like them!
I hope you'll like them!
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